News MacBook Air Gets New Keyboard, Ice Lake, Starts at $999

[Admin]

Apple introduced a new MacBook Air with the Magic Keyboard and a starting price of $999.

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[NightHawkRMX]

A perfect. $1000 for a thermal throttling Dual-core i3

 

[daglesj]

Wow...maybe buy a proper computer instead? I think most Chromebooks now have more power than that.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

https://www.amazon.com/HP-Touchscreen-Chromebook-Computer-Quad-Core/dp/B084C25KZD/ref=sr_1_12?dchild=1&keywords=Chromebook&qid=1584538005&refinements=p_n_feature_five_browse-bin:7817224011&rnid=2257851011&s=electronics&sr=1-12

In fact, yes.

Here is a $545 Chromebook that has a 4c/8t i5 and the same 8gb ram. It has a smaller SSD but included a hdd for more total storage.

This is half the cost, performs better, and has a touchscreen, something i feel a $1000 Macbook should have.

 

[cyrusfox]

This appears to be a big win for Intel on Ice lake. Surprised really to see it as it seems all the premium designs are sticking with comet lake on mobile and pushing high clock speeds.
Maybe 10nm is finally going to make a proper debut. Can't wait to see the teardowns on the new air, Guess ram is still going to be soldered in place, but wonder on the SSD, whether that can be swapped out or if it has some encryption locking chip that forces Only Apple storage(Latest mac pro seems to suggest apple is locking more and more of the hardware down).

 

[NightHawkRMX]

This appears to be a big win for Intel on Ice lake. Surprised really to see it as it seems all the premium designs are sticking with comet lake on mobile and pushing high clock speeds.
Maybe 10nm is finally going to make a proper debut. Can't wait to see the teardowns on the new air, Guess ram is still going to be soldered in place, but wonder on the SSD, whether that can be swapped out or if it has some encryption locking chip that forces Only Apple storage(Latest mac pro seems to suggest apple is locking more and more of the hardware down).

Previous airs had soldered SSD and t2

 

[cyrusfox]

Previous airs had soldered SSD and t2

Lame, last air I was looking at I believe 2013, didn't have NVME but a similiar standard (early PCIE ssd AHCI weirdness) and was upgradeable with a few hoops to jump through. I shouldn't be surprised, these are just permanent configs and the masses are fine with that so I should stop caring.